scout balloon

noun

scout balloon

noun

1

Synonym of observation balloon.

Scout balloons hung in the sky above the tree line and lightning crashed in the distance like some faint reminder of a natural world.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 8, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 51:

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